Warnings About Retrobright Damaging Plastics After 10 Year Test Within the retro computing community there exists a lot of controversy about so-called ‘retrobrighting’, which involves methods that seeks to reverse the yellowing that many plastics suffer over time. While …read more #hacking #projects image
Off-Grid, Small-Scale Payment System An effective currency needs to be widely accepted, easy to use, and stable in value. By now most of us have recognized that cryptocurrencies fail at all three things, despite …read more #hacking #projects image
Biogas Production For Surprisingly Little Effort Probably most people know that when organic matter such as kitchen waste rots, it can produce flammable methane. As a source of free energy it’s attractive, but making a biogas …read more #hacking #projects image
Building a Microscope without Lenses It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the …read more #hacking #projects image
Preventing a Mess with the Weller WDC Solder Containment Pocket Have you ever tipped all the stray bits of solder out of your tip cleaner by mistake? [MisterHW] is here with a bit pf paraffin wax to save the day. …read more #hacking #projects image
Build A Pocket-Sized Wi-Fi Analyzer Wi-Fi! It’s everywhere, and yet you can’t really see it, by virtue of the technology relying on the transmission of electromagnetic waves outside the visual spectrum. Never mind, though, because …read more #hacking #projects image
Raising a GM EV1 from the Dead Probably the biggest story in the world of old cars over the past couple of weeks has been the surfacing of a GM EV1 electric car for sale from an …read more #hacking #projects image
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Pretty Protoypes Some like it flat, and there’s nothing wrong with that. What you are looking at is the first prototype of Atlas by [AsicResistor], which is still a work in progress. [AsicResistor] …read more #hacking #projects image
An Introduction to Analog Filtering One of the major difficulties in studying electricity, especially when compared to many other physical phenomena, is that it cannot be observed directly by human senses. We can manipulate it …read more #hacking #projects image
Ore Formation: A Surface Level Look The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come to bring that surface-level understanding to surface-level …read more #hacking #projects image